Tomaž Lavrič (1964) works in illustration, political caricature, and comics. As a caricaturist, he has been a permanent contributor to the magazine Mladina since 1988, where his best-known work, the satirical comic strip Diarrhoea, has been published for three decades. So far, more than forty of his comic books have been published in Slovenia and around the world. In 1999 he received the Grand Prix at the Festival de BD à Sierre in Switzerland and the Lion d’Argent at the Lion Awards in Brussels for the graphic novel Bosnian Fables. Decalogue and Red Alert were nominated for an Angoulême Award, while Slovenian Classics in Comics Form 2 received a Zlatirepec Award. He also illustrated the Kuzma the Gremlin books by Svetlana Makarovič and Four Black Ants by Anja Štefan, and, most recently, his own poetry collection Otto the Little Worm. He held solo exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art Ljubljana in 2010 and the Cankar Centre in 2015. He has received the Medal of Merit from the President of the Republic of Slovenia and the Prešeren Fund Award for his work.